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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

WappiSimba – Residency

45th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of WappiSimba
WappiSimba Confirmed in the catalog @15623
Jun 10 – Jul 25, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Green Water, Good Company

Herring's here, lenses are here, I'm exactly where I mean to be.

176 m
Deepest dive
6:35
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 10, 202642 m11.1°C38 m
Jun 29, 2026182 m11.8°C41 m
Jul 3, 2026597 m11.3°C176 m
Jul 22, 2026436 m13.2°C60 m
Jul 25, 2026309 m13.2°C82 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 10, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 597 m (measured), deepest dive 176 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 309 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 25

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

176 m
Deepest dive
6:35
Longest dive
46
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
44
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200176 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (597 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
597 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 597 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C – 13.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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